Paradox Patch: July 2010

Update to Trump Era Newcomers

Until I understand this EU Cookie law better I will leave Google's complimentary notice that this blog uses Blogger and Google cookies. These include Google Analytics and AdSense cookies. Also, I feel that I should warn that this blog was started in the style of and in response to the toxic commentary of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. I don't mince words and the people who cannot see common sense in my words or are deliberately uninformed may not like the way I express myself. I moderate comments because I have had stalkers that posted filth in response to my religion. I'm not afraid to post conflicting opinion comments but I filter threats and inappropriate language comments. This comes in response to the Trump Era. May it be shorter than 4 years. =)

Friday, July 16, 2010

Okay SERIOUSLY??

When O'Reilly thinks you are cracked, that's saying something.

1. Nanny state.. Glenn Beck can't see the value in Michelle Obama's fight an child obesity?? He's MORMON!!! The Word of Wisdom is all about eating healthy and getting exercise. Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh could use a stint at fat camp. If you melted down their blubber it would be an alternate form of energy!!

2. Michelle Obama isn't WEARING a dress in the pictures of her visiting the Gulf. She's wearing a blouse. IF that was some sort of political statement, wouldn't it be more along the lines of oil blobs washing up on pristine beaches???

3. President Spencer W. Kimball, who was prophet in my childhood years, encouraged us to grow a garden. For the love of all that is good and holy, convert to a different religion, Glenn. You are so insane.

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Independence Day...

The sun is going down so it's time to bring my flag in. My church begins at 9 a.m. and being the first Sunday of the month it was fast and testimony meeting (scroll to Fast Sunday). Our Bishop presided today which was perfect because he's unlikely hero, so to speak. He's a very humble, loving man, with a smile on his face always. He served in the Gulf war, Desert Storm, under Bush Sr. He said that 3 things can move him to tears when he speaks of them: his God, his country, and his family. He didn't get through any of it without emotion. I love him very much. He told a story of a time that they were fighting alongside soldiers from Kuwait. These men were so impassioned to gain back what belonged to them. When it became apparent that they were successful in taking back their land, the Kuwaitis insisted that they stop and offer thanks to their God. My Bishop said he could see no difference in the dirt or any sign that they had crossed into Kuwait but these men knew and they gave thanks. They took handfuls of dirt and they rubbed it on themselves, throwing it in the air to let it rain down on them. They kissed the earth of their homeland.

I thought today how our people would react to losing and then fighting to regain America. The patriotic hymns we sang to day, making me feel proud and humbled at our gift of freedom. I thought of the people who fought for this, the authors of the hymns, the people who protest every loving thing under the sun, do they recognize that they protest because they CAN??? They wouldn't have that freedom in every country. Perhaps we've grown soft and jaded. We no longer recognize what it is to love our country. We pay lip service to the hymns and the Pledge of Allegiance but we are ungrateful and we are disrespectful.

As I sang the fourth verse, I felt humble:
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears.

America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea.

I leaned over to my daughter and said "From sea to shining sea? That's not counting Arizona right?" I'm not certain that these patriotic men or people who have fought to preserve our freedom ever imagined the horror that our country has become or the disrespect. It's nice to step back and think on what they intended it to be.